Add whitespace handling (trim) for commit messages

[rojvv]

[escapedcat]

You mean if it's intended not to trim inputs? tbh I don't know. What would you expect? Is this blocking you in a way? Would be nice if you could add some more context to your issue.

Creating a commit message I usually use -m "[MESSAGE]" and I don't have any spaces in there. Don't think it's commitlint's task to take care of this. But maybe this could be improved.

[rojvv]

I expect it to not count leading whitespaces. Yes, it is super blocking in case of mistakes.

[escapedcat]

Do you have time and motivation to look into this?

[adanilev]

So you want to allow leading whitespace? IMO, that's an invalid commit message and is being linted correctly - albeit with a misleading error message.

The purpose of commitlint is to throw errors when you make mistakes - so blocking is the correct behaviour. No?

[escapedcat]

The purpose of commitlint is to throw errors when you make mistakes

True, I can understand this as well

[jbnjohnathan]

Currently when having a leading space, the error message says that the subject is empty. I suggest that the error message instead says that there is leading whitespace. This is due to identifying extra unwanted leading whitespace is hard in a commit message.

[escapedcat]

Thanks @marcalexiei https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint/releases/tag/v18.6.0